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Streaming sentences, not audio, makes voice agents feel faster
A developer improved voice agent responsiveness by streaming text sentences from the LLM and synthesizing them immediately, rather than waiting for the full response. The approach uses sentence-boundary detection to pipeline TTS and playback, reducing perceived latency. This simple technique avoids complex phoneme streaming or custom protocols.
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A practical, low-overhead optimization that highlights how user experience often depends on pipeline architecture, not just model speed.
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